Delicious Reads: Mr. Holmes {Book to Movie}

Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen releases July 17th and is rated PG. I watched the trailer and it looks like a good mystery. This movie is based off of the characters from Arthur Conan Doyle's books "The Sherlock Holmes Series" and the movie is based off the the novel "Sherlock Holmes: A Slight Trick of the Mind" by Mitch Cullin.

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{Movie Synopsis}

An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman.

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{Book Synopsis}

It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of the Mind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunning inquiry into the mysteries of human connection.

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Ian McKellen

One of my favorite British actors is playing Sherlock Holmes. Who better than Ian McKellen?

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Ian McKellen has been in so many great movies. He was Magneto in all the X-Men movies and he was in all the Hobbit Movies and the Lord of the Ring Movies playing Gandalf. He has some more roles coming out soon. Animal Crackers, and Beauty and the Beast playing Cogsworth.

{Roger}

Milo Parker

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What a cutie! Milo Parker's first movie was Robot Overlords and he is currently working on another book to movie which I will for sure do a post on Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children where he plays Hugh. That movie comes out next March.

{Mrs. Munro}

Laura Linney

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I wasn't sure if you would recognize her in the first pic so I put up two. Laura Linney has been in the movie industry for years and has been in many movies. Some of her most well known movies are: The Truman Show, Mystic River and Primal Fear. She has two more movies coming up: Genius and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.

{Ann Kelmet}

Hattie Morahan

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Hattie Morahan is a British actress and most well known for her movies The Bank Job and The Golden Compass. She has a couple more movies in the making. She is also in Beauty and the Beast playing Agathe and The Outcast.

{Thomas Kelmot}

Patrick Kennedy

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Patrick is also a British actor and you probably have seen him in Atonement, War Horse and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. He was also on Downton Abbey playing Terence Sampson. His upcoming projects are: Person of Interest (TV) and London Has Fallen (2016).

{Tamiki Umezaki}

Hiroyuki Sanada

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Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese Actor and has been in many movies you will recognize him from such as: The Wolverine and 47 Ronin. His upcoming project is the much anticipated movie in my house: Minions where he plays the voice of Sumo Villain.

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Bill Condon

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Bill Condon is an American from New York City. He has directed such movies as: Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters, Kinsey and Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II. His upcoming project is da da da daaaa Beauty and the Beast. I see a connection here.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

He is the original author and the one who brought these characters to life in his books, The Sherlock Holmes Series. born in 1859 and died in 1930 and his characters still live on in books, movies and TV shows like my favorite on CBS Elementary.

Mitch Cullin

Mitch Cullin is an author from New Mexico and has written several books. Sherlock Holmes: A Slight Trick of the Mind was written in 2005